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Jodi Hruska

Vanessa Meyer

Ali Helgoth

Search Topic: Dinosaurs
Type of Search: Internet
Search Engine: Alta Vista

 Attempt

Search terms and operators used

# of hits

Quality of Hits The majority of hits in this search appear to be 

 

 1.

Dinosaurs

569759

Good

2.

Dinosaur AND Teeth

418276

A lot of Information

3.

Jurassic Park

339266

Broad

4.

Dinosaur Lesson Plans

69

Very Good

www.rain.org/~philfear/download-a-dinosaur.html

Navigation and Usability

This website is a simple way to study dinosaurs. It is very colorful and has great directions to different areas concerning dinosaurs.

Authorship

This website has little information about the author. The only thing that is displayed is his name and a way to contact him. There really isn’t any background information about the author.

Content Validity

This website does not have a whole lot of information. There is a huge gallery of dinosaur pictures in which you can print off and fold. This website would be useful to an art class of some sort.

 

Search Topic: Dinosaurs
Type of Search: Internet
Search Engine: Yahoo

 Attempt

Search terms and operators used

# of hits

Quality of Hits The majority of hits in this search appear to be 

 

 1.

Dinosaurs

329000

Good

2.

Jurassic Park

79700

Very Broad

3.

Dinosaur AND Teeth

17700

Broad

4.

Dinosaur Lesson Plans

2850

Resourceful

www.elko.k12.nv.us/northside/dinoles.htm

Navigation and Usability

This website is very easy to get to and east to get information on dinosaurs.

Authorship

The author is Claire Ann Baird. She doesn’t make it very easy to contact. She does tell what her classroom accomplished. There is no background information.

Validity

This website has a lot of great information about dinosaurs. This website has many links to internet sites, books, videos, and other resources.

 

 

 

Search Topic: Dinosaurs
Type of Search: Internet
Search Engine: Netscape

 Attempt

Search terms and operators used

# of hits

Quality of Hits The majority of hits in this search appear to be 

 

 1.

Dinosaurs

301

Very Informative

2.

Jurassic Park

39

Very Fun

3.

Dinosaur AND Teeth

7

Not Specific to Purpose of Study

4.

Dinosaur Lesson Plans

1

Very Good

www.worldbook.com/fun/dinosaurs/html/intro.htm

Navigation and Usefulness

This website has great navigation tools. It allows you to discover types of dinosaurs.

Authorship

There is really no author. It is World Book so it was copyrighted.

Validity

There is a lot of information and useful in studying dinosaurs.

 

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